Comments on: Spot the stiff

Question: Spot the stiff

handybitesize — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:59:48 -0800

So I'm way behind you guys on The Wire, watching DVD releases in the UK, but I having just seen the opening of Season 4 episode 2 I have a question.

(Herc catches Royce in flagrante delicto). Herc then walks the corridor avoiding the gaze of the portraits lining the the walls. The final, lingering, shot is of a gentlemen that in any other context I would swear was Walt Disney. Should I recognize him? Is it an in-joke? and the others?

By: electroboy

electroboy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:06:43 -0800

It's most likely a former Mayor of Baltimore, as it was filmed in City Hall.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:14:30 -0800

[moved potential spoiler to inside, carry on]

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:18:32 -0800

Former Mayor - and Nancy Pelosi's dad - Thomas J. D'Alesandro Jr.?

By: munchingzombie

munchingzombie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:19:14 -0800

I wouldn't go looking up former mayors of Baltimore. Here thar be spoilers.

By: munchingzombie

munchingzombie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:20:06 -0800

er... except the above link to Thomas D'Alesandro. That is safe.

By: handybitesize

handybitesize — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:21:09 -0800

Thanks jessamyn - I deliberated over that myself but decided to use the least spoiling spoiler I could

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:21:35 -0800

Here's a cached article from the Baltimore Mayor's office about the tradition of Mayoral Portraits.

By: handybitesize

handybitesize — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:24:07 -0800

That's the fella - thanks all. Still think he looks Disneyesque